The Chinese Communist Social gathering takes advantage of govt-sanctioned religion organizations to command institutionalized faith and to power spiritual teams to encourage the political aims of the point out, the U.S. Commission on Worldwide Spiritual Freedom explained in a new report about religion in China. Authorities also interfere with the […]
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(The Conversation) — Since Jorge Mario Bergoglio to start with stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, he has designed no shortage of statements that catch the attention of awareness. “Who am I to choose?” he famously stated about homosexual clergymen. “Nowadays […]
(RNS) — On Tuesday (April 18), the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in this year’s big religion case, about an attempt to get the court to expand employers’ legal obligation to accommodate the religious needs of their employees. The case, Groff v. DeJoy, concerns Gerald Groff, an evangelical Christian mail […]
(The Conversation) — U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can be used at private religious schools. School-choice advocates have won key cases at the Supreme Court in recent years, opening up more ways for public dollars to support faith-based education. But Oklahoma pushed the […]
Ahead of the Trend • North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan saw drops in total religious adherents of at least 10%. Some Idaho counties became more religious. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Father Martin Diaz, pastor of Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, celebrates […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, but the number of Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated continues to grow. Those are among the key findings in a comprehensive report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center that surveyed 7,647 U.S. […]